21 year old Cindy Haumann vanished from her home in Tucson, Arizona in November 1980

[u/SafePoint1282]

Cindy Lee Haumann went missing from Tucson, Arizona on Monday November 3, 1980. She was last seen at her home. 

Cindy was described as a 21-year-old white female. She was listed at 5’2” and 125 pounds with strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. She had a scar on one of her hands, a tattoo on one of her ankles, and wore reading glasses. Her dental records were collected by investigators.

Very little information is available on this case. A search of Cindy’s name in the Tucson Citizen and Arizona Daily Star archives does not bring up any articles on the case. Cindy is also not profiled in Pima County’s 88Crime program. 

A genealogy site lists Cindy’s parents as Lee Vernon Haumann and Bettie Black. Lee Haumann had an address history that included Sierra Vista, Arizona, Fort Madison, Iowa, and an apartment near the intersection of Broadway and Euclid near the i-10 freeway in Downtown, Tucson.

A man named Lee Baker commented on an online forum in December 2019. He claimed he was Cindy’s brother and that Tucson PD never contacted the family to obtain a DNA profile. He claimed Cindy’s dental records would not be in Arizona, but in Washington state or Hawaii where Cindy grew up.

Lee claimed Cindy had two sisters. 

Another forum user unearthed a 1975 high school yearbook photo of Cindy from Mountainlake Terrace High School from Classmates. 

There are many unsolved murders of young women in the 1980’s in Tucson.

Accountant Virginia “Ginger” Daily was strangled in August of 1980. 15-year-old Christina Burruel was murdered over a month after Christina disappeared. 

Many questions remain in this disappearance that have not been released to the public. Was Cindy in a relationship at the time of her disappearance? Was a suspect ever identified, and what was the location of Cindy’s home in Tucson? If she went missing from Arizona, why is she profiled on a California missing persons page? 

Sources

California Department of Justice profile

https://oag.ca.gov/missing/person/cindy-l-haumann

Charley Project

https://charleyproject.org/case/cindy-l-haumann

 

Genealogy site

https://www.bassett.net/gendata-o/p1798.htm

 

Webslueths thread

https://websleuths.com/threads/az-cindy-haumann-21-tucson-3-nov-1980.179258/

 

Doe Network

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/mp-main.html?id=1397dfaz

[u/IronViking99]

I'm a Tucson resident since 1993. I stay up on cold cases here and this is the first I've heard of this disappearance.

I do know that there is no Mountainlake Terrace High School in Tucson or the surrounding area.

As for where she might have gone, well, apart from foul play, 1980 was a time when people still hitch-hiked to get around, plus it was still possible to disappear and create a new identity.

But then again, there's so little data so we don't know if her life situation would compel her to disappear for reasons of personal safety or to avoid her family, or jto ust get a fresh start in life.

[u/ResponsibleCulture43 → u/IronViking99]

Mountlake terrace is city in Washington with a high school with that name, I assumed that was a typo but OP would need to confirm. I live in the area so that was my first thought as it was mentioned she lived here!

ETA: confirmed it was mountlake terrace high school in WA, the websleuths poster made a typo copied here, the yearbook screenshot in the thread shows the name

[u/Cool_Highlight2841 → u/ResponsibleCulture43]

oh interesting, so she actually grew up in WA then moved to AZ. that would explain the records location. makes me wonder if she had family still up there she might have gone back to

[u/Cool_Highlight2841]

the fact that the police never reached out to the family for a DNA profile is honestly baffling. in 1980 okay, but this case is still open. has anyone tried contacting Tucson PD recently to ask about this?

[u/Senior-Passion4417 → u/Cool_Highlight2841]

That is assuming that is true

[u/Good-Pomegranate-655]

There are many unsolved murders of young women in the 1980’s in Tucson.

Male, but on the note of Tucson - another insane case I learned of recently. Unsolved murder of Bud Lane 1968 https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/s/tqrRb5PF0D

[u/Several-Cry-4267]

The thing that jumps out to me is how thin and circular the public record is.

The California DOJ entry has Tucson PD as the reporting agency, case number 011034013, dental x-rays marked available and basically nothing else beyond “last seen” in Tucson on 3 Nov 1980.

Charley adds “suspicious circumstances”, but there’s still no public fact explaining why.

If the 824 E 10th St address from the old NamUs notes is right, that’s interesting because the building is a 1962 apartment block near downtown and the UA, so “last seen at home” might depend on who said it.

Like a roommate, neighbour, landlord, caller, boyfriend or someone else entirely.

The most useful missing piece may be boring paperwork, like the original Tucson PD report or a 1980 reverse directory for that building, because right now even the reason this became a suspected foul play case is hidden.